The debut album Flying Machines, is available at Amazon.com and iTunes.
Well, next week is the CMJ MUSIC MARATHON, the biggest NYC music festival. This year we have the honor of playing twice !
October 22nd at 4:45 we will play and abbreviated set at the College Radio Day, Eisner & Lubin building Kimmel Center. More info forthcoming -
THE MAIN EVENT
Thursday Night October 22nd @ 8pm
FONTANA’S 105 Eldridge Street !!!
Free with CMJ pass – $10.00 otherwise.
get there early, lest you be turned away sad.
see u there !!!
I never wrote about out visit to Winnipeg. It was super fun! We filmed 2 videos in 4 days. The director Deco Dawson is very talented, and you will all see soon what he has shot and edited together for ON A WHIM and TALK ABOUT IT. These are exciting times! Our 1st shoot location was The Royal Albert Hotel, which now stands abandoned, save for the 1st floor rock club still in use. 3 floors of peeling paint, and dust mites and destroyed bathrooms. 3 floors of ghosts and history. The hotel itself was alive, and we filmed there for 14 straight hours. The next day we visited a train yard and set up as if to play a show on the tracks in the weeds. Mosquitoes ruled the day, and luckily it cooled down quick and ther lost interest in us. On A Whim was filmed at this location. We also had some extras in this video, and I can’t wait for you to see them ! As soon as we got back from Canada, William and I left for LA. More on that later !
FLYING MACHINES
FLYING MACHINES
METEOR 17 / EMI
The fact that Flying Machines appropriates the name of James Taylor’s first outfit, pre-his “Sweet Baby James” stardom, and that the band’s sound echoes an unlikely mix of Freddy Mercury, Eric Carmen and Ben Folds with a load of high voltage amplitude tossed in, doesn’t belie their fresh enthusiasm on this, their stirring debut. Youthful indulgence aside, the band emits an earnest attitude and an effusive exuberance that engulfs the entire LP and ups the antes via a high-octane assault. Propulsive rhythms and catchy melodies predominate here, with songs like “Video Games, “Hopelessly Alone” and “Cleaning the Boards” providing the most lingering impressions. Likewise, the occasional moment of emotional respite – as offered through “I Don’t Remember Why” and “Stay” — suggests that while the lads might eventually mellow with age, they’ll clearly do so gracefully. Indeed, their astute arrangements and a clear sense of confidence — buoyed no doubt by the input and encouragement of mentor and veteran hit-maker Spencer Proffer — make a commercial breakthrough an imminent possibility. All in all then, an impressive introduction, one which gives future offerings ample cause for anticipation. Watch for the Flying Machines to take off quickly.
–Lee Zimmerman
Fitting Friday for a firing. Nine Eleven. Last day for Evan. Well this is a new feeling. For the moment a bit purgatorial. This morning I’ve been biding my time in cafes, waiting for the final paycheck. Raining outside. Girlfriend unclothed a few floors above me, a couple doors down. Eighth street. She will visit me on her bathrobe break.
Walking here from the bookstore by Union Square I passed a small wet casket on Broadway. Fine Friday for a funeral. Oh one. Oh nine. Just wish the rain would let up. Recluse of Bushwick now. Have to think about money again. Maybe spend my days in the parks. Busking?
Going to get a new tattoo below my arrow. Not that one. A Brancusion Joyce looking down tension’s nose. Discord. Two like strings stretched. Unison bow. Ping! Ping!
Or will I become like one of the regulars in this cafe? Jobless life on free WiFi jobfind. Away from the empty apartment. Remind em you exist. Talk to yourself and the cute girl behind the counter who will tolerate you. Another two-toothed regular is in love with her. “Can I paint you naked, my dear?” Take the class like the rest of em.
Hungry. Joyce on library steps describing his tightening stomach muscles. Shabby suit and smelly (he rarely washed). Hunger. Hamsun, driving himself insane. Should I bite my finger? I can’t do it, I’ll do it. Was Beckett ever hungry like that? I’ll wait till I’m home to eat.
Screenwriter in the corner with high-paid intern who eats for free. Lucky dog. “What’s the uh… word for the words at the bottom of the screen… like in Spanish you know?” Says screenwriter. “Subtitles,” says intern. Days work done. Base of operations. Base operation. Bass operator. Check not yet ready. Guess she hasn’t had a break. Rain still raining. I’ll wait for her lunch hour.
I bum a cigarette from a begrudging ex-bum regular. Loud talker, head shaker. Under the awning outside now. Gaggle of Italians pop their umbrellas round my head as they exit. Black, uh… brellas? Funeral pyre? Broadway. A man across the way rolls a smoking cigarette between his knuckles like a pensive poker player. Rubber sanitation worker sweeping up the falling leaves with rough painters brushstrokes against the pavement. Kht. Kht. Khht. I flick my cigarette into the street away from his hooded eyes.
Here in this spot yesterday afternoon, with flowers in my hand and bass on back about to leave for Philly. Got home at dawn twelve hours previous. Drinking contest with myself. Slept through most of work, so fired by Pfao. Made Shirah worry. Treated wrong. Do flowers help really? Falling over my bike in the juggernaut dawn. Least I had the sense not to ride it this time. Drank with Tyler till he got tumbly, then drank with some others when he left. Womb-like purple over the Bushwick bulk. Above the projects with one charred window on floor twenty eight. Trash on their lawn tossed out of every other window. Beyond caring. Pathetic. Rode the train with a real-live Dubliner. Not the dead one in my backpack. Could not understand him. Probably couldn’t understand me. Here she comes now…
Fired by Pfao on Friday the eleventh. Freedom in this years September!
-Evan
10/10/2009 08:00 PM – O’Brien’s Pub
3 Harvard Avenue
Allston, Massachusetts 02134
US
Cost:N/A
Description:http://www.obrienspubboston.com/ 3 Harvard Avenue, Allston MA 02134 – Phone (617) 782-6245
10/03/2009 04:00 PM – Rusty Rudder (ACOUSTIC)
113 Dickinson Street
Dewey Beach, Delaware 19971
US
Cost:N/A
10/02/2009 11:30 PM – DEWEY BEACH MUSIC CONFERENCE (Ruddertown Complex)
113 Dickinson Street (stage B)
Dewey Beach, Delaware 19971
US
Cost:FREE
09/22/2009 07:00 PM – ALBUM RELEASE SHOW (Arlene’s Grocery)
95 stanton street
New York, New York 10009
US
Cost:N/A
09/10/2009 10:30 PM – WORLD CAFE LIVE!
3025 Walnut Street
Phildelphia, Pennsylvania 19104
US
Cost:$5.00
